I just ran "user menu" by a user. With an empty desktop, I told her to "click the user menu on the top bar and select System Settings."
She didn't see a User menu (i.e. a menu called User). Then she went for the universal access menu, because it looks like a little person, a user. Then she scrubbed back and forth a few times on the icons, without going all the way to the name on the right. She finally went far enough to the right. The only reason she knew she'd gotten the right menu was that she saw System Settings. That's not a terrible thing, if we're careful to only reference it with some sort of target where the user can get some sort of affirmation. Obviously, I couldn't really test "click your name on the top bar" with the same user right after that test. But I did ask her about that phrase, and she thought she'd have found it immediately with that language. I suspect "menu in the upper right corner" would get good results as well, but I don't have any more users within arm's reach. On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:26 -0700, Kelly Sinnott wrote: > I have two possible fixes. Both involve making a new definition page > for the menu which shows both the full name and icon view. One would > be to come up with an acceptable name for the menu (the bug uses "user > menu" which I like), change all references to "your name on the top > bar" to "user menu" as a link, and call it a day. The other way would > be to change the references to "the menu in the upper right corner" or > something like that, but still link the word "menu" to clear things > up. Thoughts? > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> > wrote: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651299 > > Proposed patches will allow the top bar to drop the user's > name > and just show the status icon if space is constrained. This > could > cause confusion for our current standard blurb "Click your > name > on the top bar". I've filed a docs bug here: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653487 > > Let's discuss. > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > > > > -- > Regards, > > Kelly > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
